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Old May 9th 08 posted to sci.physics.relativity
The Ghost In The Machine
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Default What is Sun made of?

In sci.physics.relativity, John Park

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on 6 May 2008 19:32:48 GMT
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The Ghost In The Machine ) writes:
[...]

Sol's mass is on the order of 2 * 10^30 kg or 2 * 10^33 hydrogen atoms

[...]

Actually there are rather more than 1000 hydrogen atoms per kg.

--John Park


Good catch; make that 1.5 billion billion billion billion.

(I hate it when I do that.)

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